Rolf Marx

Rolf Marx (* 1957 in Witten ) is a German jazz musician ( guitar ).

Live and act

Marx learned to play classical guitar from the age of twelve. He first studied school music at the University of Dortmund and then moved to the Cologne University of Music and Dance , where he studied jazz and concert guitar (with Eliot Fisk, among others ).

In 1984, Marx won the competition at the Leverkusener Jazztage in Norbert Gottschalk's trio ; with Gottschalk he released the albums Stars and Two Sessions . For more than 20 years he has been part of Engelbert Wrobel's "Swing Society", with which he has presented several albums. He is involved in other jazz projects such as the “Three Tenors Of Swing”, the quintet by Ariane Jacobi ( Big City Is for Me ) and the “King of Swing Orchestra”. In his Rolf Marx Trio he plays with Ingmar Heller and Oliver Mewes . With François de Ribaupierre and Volker Heinze he formed the Newborn Trio . He also worked as a guitarist at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the WDR radio orchestra .

In the course of his career he has worked with musicians like Claudio Puntin ( Red is my name , Friends ), Caterina Valente , Hazy Osterwald , Jiggs Whigham , Gene "Mighty Flee" Conners , Bucky Pizzarelli , Peter Erskine , Dan Barrett , Bobby Shew , Bill Ramsey , Gitte Haenning , Peanuts Hucko , Sabine Meyer , Heinz Kretzschmar or Joe Wulf performed; he gave concerts with the WDR Big Band together with Ray Brown and Dee Dee Bridgewater . He can also be heard on albums by the RTL Big Band , by Shaunette Hildabrand , Silvia Droste ( Duke's Sound of Love ), Gerdur Gunnarsdóttir ( Bellman á Islandi ), Susanne Riemer , Sumi Jo , Jörg Hegemann and the Echoes of Swing with Rebecca Kilgore .

In addition, Marx worked as a lecturer for concert and electric guitar.